Art Decades

Art Decades series of talks look to unveil the hidden lives of rock artists outside the recording studio and finds out how they coped when they were really tested to the limit.

The tortuous relationship between rock music and commerce, where compromises can be unavoidable, is examined, generating absorbing stories and spectacles in rock music, including lost innocence, altered images and diabolical cynicism – proving that money really does change everything.

The Art Decades series has touched on the psychogeography of rock in an urban setting before, but this Art Decades hits the road and explores the pervasive influence of landscape, sea, mountains and air on musicians and artists of all kinds. It also homes in on the special allure of country music, in all its permutations, and its special place in American culture.